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The Nazi Party began as the German's Worker's Party in 1919 by Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder, and Dietrich Eckhart in Munich. Adolf Hitler soon joined, gaining power and changing the name of the party to the National Socialist German Worker's Party, which was later changed to the Nazi Party. Hitler's skills as an orator and the onset of the Depression caused the power of the Party to significantly increase until his ascension of power. With the help of the genius propagandist, Joseph Goebbel, by 1930 the Nazi Party had won the maojority in the Reichstag. The Nazi Party, initially believed, as it wrote in its 25 Point Programme:
  • The unity of all German-speaking people
  • The dissolution of the Treaty of Versialles
  • The freedom from foriegn influence in Germany
  • No Jewish German citizens
  • Eqaul rights for all German citizens
  • Socialist reforms to benefit citizens (education, pensions, etc.)
  • A strong central government with great authority

During Hitler's reign in power, however, he emphasized even more anti-semetic principles, German loyalty, and complete state control, including the economy. In his speeches, He blamed the problems of Germany on the Allies, the Communists, the Jews, and the Versaille Treaty. After WWII, the Nazi political party was banned in Germany and many other countries, but many fringe groups began to appear in the 1960's. The "Skinheads" and Neo-Nazis, in the world today, are an example of this. Originating in working-class London, the skinheads held very anti-semetic and racist views, posing a severe threat to Pakistanis in England. They then began to appear all across Europe in the 60's, including in Germany, as the immigration of non-Europeans began to increase. In the present day, the skinheads commit more hate crimes than any other racist "group."

Nazi Swastika
Nazi Swastika

The Nazi Party also had a dark goal to repopulate the world with the "Superior Race." To achieve this goal, the Nazi party abducted all Jewish and Gypsy people in Germany. Hitler proposed the idea of the "Final Solution," which is how this process began. These abductees were sent to Nazi Concentration Camps. The Jewish and Gypsy prisoners were starved, and cruelly treated. The prisoners were mass executed in gas chambers and crematories. Some of the healthier prisoners, mainly men, were forced into Labor Camps where they were mostly worked to death. The least lucky prisoners were selected by the Nazi "doctors" to go through terrible experimentations. These were just a few of the terrible Nazi tactics.
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